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MAX SCHANZENBACH

2021

Periodical Articles

January 2021

• Risk Management and the Prudent Investor Rule, Trusts & Estates (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff).

2020

Newspaper Articles

June 2020

• A Proactive Approach to Abusive Policing, Wall Street Journal (June 3, 2020) (Co-authored by: Kyle Rozema).

Papers

June 2020

• Comment Letter of Professors Max M. Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Request for Comment on the Names Rule for Mutual Finds in Light of ESG Investing and Other Market Developments in Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-05 (2020) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff).

Periodical Articles

July 2020

• Good Cop, Bad Cop: An Analysis of Chicago Civilian Allegations of Police Misconduct, 11 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 225 (2019) (Co-authored by: Kyle Rozema).

February 2020

• Reconciling Fiduciary Duty and Social Conscience: The Law and Economics of Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing, 72 Stanford Law Review 381 (2020) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff).

SSRN

August 2020

• Comment Letter of Professors Max M. Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff on the Department of Labor’s Proposed Rulemaking on Financial Factors in Selecting Plan Investments.

2019

Papers

February 2019

• The Law and Economics of Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing by a Fiduciary in Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-22 (2018) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff).

2018

Periodical Articles

September 2018

• The Prudent Investor Rule and Market Risk: An Empirical Analysis, 14 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 129 (2017) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff).

April 2018

• Reclaiming Fiduciary Law for the City, 70 Stanford Law Review 565 (2018) (Co-authored by: Nadav Shoked).

2016

Papers

July 2016

• Fiduciary Financial Advice to Retirement Savers: Don't Overlook the Prudent Investor Rule in Northwestern Law & Economics Research Paper No. 16-11 (2016) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff).

May 2016

• The Effect of Prison Sentence Length on Recidivism: Evidence from Random Judicial Assignment (Co-authored by: Michael A. Roach).

2015

Newspaper Articles

August 2015

• College Tenure Has Reached Its Sell-By Date, Wall Street Journal (Aug. 11, 2015) (Co-authored by: John O. McGinnis).

Periodical Articles

February 2015

• Explaining the Public-Sector Pay Gap: The Role of Skill and College Major, 9 Journal of Human Capital 1 (2015).

• The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from Heart Patients, 39 Journal of Health Economics 273 (2015) (Co-authored by: Ronen Avraham).

2014

Periodical Articles

December 2014

• The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from Heart Patients, 39 Journal of Health Economics 273 (2015) (Co-authored by: Ronen Avraham).

2013

SSRN

November 2013

• The State and Local Pay Penalty: The Effect of Skill and College Major.

2012

Periodical Articles

November 2012

• Racial Disparities Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: The Role of Judicial Discretion and Mandatory Minimums, 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 729-764 (2012) (Co-authored by: Joshua B. Fischman).

• The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums, 28 Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 657-686 (2012) (Co-authored by: Ronen Avraham and Leemore S. Dafny) (also available as NBER Working Paper no. 15371).

February 2012

• Do Standards of Review Matter? The Case of Federal Criminal Sentencing, 40 Journal of Legal Studies 405-437 (2011) (Co-authored by: Joshua B. Fischman).

2010

Periodical Articles

December 2010

• The Impact of Tort Reform on Private Health Insurance Coverage, 12 American Law And Economics Review 319-355 (2010) (Co-authored by: Ronen Avraham).

October 2010

• The Case Against Public Sector Unions, 162 Policy Review 3 (2010) (Co-authored by: John McGinnis ).

2009

Periodical Articles

August 2009

• Policing Politics at Sentencing , 103 Northwestern University Law Review 1371-1398 (2009) (Co-authored by: Emerson H. Tiller and Stephanos Bibas).

2008

Periodical Articles

August 2008

• Reviewing the Sentencing Guidelines: Judicial Politics, Empirical Evidence, and Reform , 75 University of Chicago Law Review 715-760 (2008) (Co-authored by: Emerson H. Tille).

June 2008

• Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation? , 50 Journal of Law & Economics 681-712 (2007) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff ).

2007

Papers

March 2007

• Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation? (Discussion Paper No. 580, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard Law School, February 2007) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff ) (Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming 2007).

Periodical Articles

February 2007

• Strategic Judging Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence , 23 Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 24-56 (2007) (Co-authored by: Emerson H. Tiller ).

2006

Periodical Articles

July 2006

• Prison Time, Fines, and Federal White-Collar Criminals: The Anatomy of a Racial Disparity, 96 Journal of Criminal Law And Criminology 757-793 (2006) (Co-authored by: Michael L. Yaeger).

May 2006

• Perpetuities or Taxes? Explaining the Rise of the Perpetual Trust, 27 Cardozo Law Review 2465-2509 (2006) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

2005

Contributions to Books etc.

December 2005

• The Employment at Will Doctrine in Handbook of Career Development (SAGE publishing 2005).

Periodical Articles

December 2005

• Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes, 115 Yale Law Journal 356-437 (2005) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff).

March 2005

• Have Federal Judges Changed Their Sentencing Practices? The Shaky Empirical Foundations of the Feeney Amendment, 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1 (2005).

January 2005

• Racial and Sex Disparities in Prison Sentences: The Effect of District-Level Judicial Demographics, 34 Journal of Legal Studies 57-92 (2005).

2004

Periodical Articles

August 2004

• Have Sentencing Practices Really Changed? A Brief Analysis of the Feeney Amendment's Real Concerns, 16 Federal Sentencing Reporter 257-263 (2004).

2003

Periodical Articles

September 2003

• Exceptions to Employment at Will: Raising Firing Costs or Enforcing Life-Cycle Contracts?, 5 American Law And Economics Review 470-504 (2003).

2002

Periodical Articles

December 2002

• Network Effects and Antitrust Law: Predation, Affirmative Defenses, and the Case of U.S. v. Microsoft, 2002 Stanford Technology Law Review 4 (2002).